[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[Karanbir Singh]

M.Blackmore wrote:
> Is there a SATA card that does hardware raid that is worth having?
> 
> Its for a home server to store pikkies etc. on, so performance doesn't
> have to be hot.
> 
> Wondering whether having hardware raid is an improvement over software
> raid with a pair of 300gb disks??
> 
> (I'm getting 3x of these, two in the raid, one somewhere else in the
> house at the end of a wire to be rsync'd to).
> 
> Obviously must be recognised by linux for a not too tekky user!

the 3ware cards are faily well supported in linux and do a good job, you 
might need to shop around to see what fits the budget.


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